Topic: Creativity

Time of Rats

Shadow plays

Eduard Bersudsky chose to be mute in Soviet days. Ever since, his moving musical sculptures have done the talking

Kapka Kassabova 17 May 2013
A wall in the studio of artist Ellsworth Kelly. Photo by Alex Majoli and Daria Birang/Magnum

Sparks will fly

Infatuated by celebrity, stuck in dreary work, addicted to consumerism. Only a creator culture can save us

Damien Walter 14 February 2013
Eight-year-olds listening to sounds in their community as part of a literacy development project in Kaunas, Lithuania. Photo by Creative Partnerships, Lithuania

Classroom revolution

After decades under a Soviet stranglehold of rote learning, Lithuania’s schools are opening the doors to creativity

Greg Klerkx 31 January 2013
Lost in the game: in its pure form, play has no external purpose or reward. Photo by Tim Wimbourne/Reuters

Tennis with Plato

In play an adult can become like a child, fully absorbed in the here-and-now. Play, not work, brings us fully to life

Mark Rowlands 30 January 2013
Always be properly dressed: a United Airlines flight attendant talks with a passenger, 1968. Photo by Dean Conger/Corbis

Rules of survival

Mid-air is a bad place, where nightmares happen. Only witches and meteorites belong there. Avoid it or be destroyed

AL Kennedy 30 November 2012